Comments on: Hanley’s Power Outagehttps://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/hanleys-power-outage/
Daily fantasy baseball analysis and strategyThu, 14 Dec 2017 02:51:24 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1By: Williamhttps://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/hanleys-power-outage/#comment-119168
Sat, 21 May 2011 18:59:17 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=18426#comment-119168Listing four (plus, say, Pujols) puts him sixth out of 300, or whatever your draft pool is. That is hardly what your snark suggests I meant
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Fri, 20 May 2011 15:59:41 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=18426#comment-118808Yes, Hanley is finished. He’ll never be a first round pick again. Trade him for $0.75 on the dollar -if you can even get that- and clear a path to happiness without this worthless slumping slugger in your lineup. You’ll finish in 9th place, but at least you won’t have your disgust. Except when you realize he hit .330 with 20 homers and 20 SB for the team you traded him too, and that guy won your league. Then the disgust will return.
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Fri, 20 May 2011 15:49:54 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=18426#comment-118807GT: I listed 4 (but second Trotter)
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Fri, 20 May 2011 15:00:34 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=18426#comment-118797One word, GT: Auction.
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Fri, 20 May 2011 14:32:41 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=18426#comment-118788Attn: David Appleman: Can Fangraphs please add xBABIP to the player pages? That would be cool.
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Fri, 20 May 2011 14:18:02 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=18426#comment-118783I am so sick of this guy. With the #2 pick in this year’s draft, who the hell else would you take? Truly a frustrating player, not just this recent funk, but his history of doggin it, pissing people off, and injury. Never drafting Hanley again.
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Fri, 20 May 2011 14:17:24 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=18426#comment-118782I stayed away from him, but I don’t think anyone could have predicted that average, which must go back up at some point. But he is four years removed from over 35 SB, and three years removed from the 25 hr mark. Sure, he is only 27, but there is, especially in his power numbers, a clear decline that extends back well further than 550 PAs. I’m not saying he is crap; he is still the second best shortstop pick, but I think his days over being a top two overall, or anything around that, are over, unless you really, really buy into positional scarcity at the expense of what the Vottos, Cabreras, Gonzalezes, Brauns, etc. can deliver with much more safety in your expectations.
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Thu, 19 May 2011 21:34:45 +0000http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=18426#comment-118522Very illuminating to compare his pitch selection and contact rates with Pujols’ who is also suffering through a career worst power drought. Pujols also has a GB% 20% higher than career norms (50%). Why has Pujols become a slap hitter all of a sudden? His O contact rate is 86% vs a career norm of around 70%. A 86% rate puts him in the company of Ichiro, Figgins, Juan Pierre and Polanco who with Todd Helton are the only guys with higher O contact rates than Pujols this year (Ichiro leads with 90%). Pujols is swinging a bit more at outside the zone pitches than usual, 22% vs 19% norm, but less than last year, 28%. But he has never made contact with those swings like he is now. So that’s why he’s not driving the ball. But can he correct that by selecting better pitches? Or is he swinging more weakly just to make contact, thereby sacrificing power? Hanley’s O swing and contact rates are within range of career norms, so I would deduce his power drought is not due to bad pitch selection but rather has swing mechanics as its cause. It looks like Pujols needs to fix both his pitch selection and his swing, at least when he is chasing balls outside the zone — maybe an FX analysis will show us if he is lunging at outside balls or is unable to turn quickly like he used on an inside ball? Please do an article on him!
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